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Akwaeke Emezi


Nigeria (b.1987)

Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and artist based in liminal spaces. Born and raised in Nigeria, they received their MPA from New York University. They were awarded a 2015 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship and won the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. Their work has been selected and edited by Chimamanda Adichie, and published in various literary magazines, including Granta.

 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
June 2024

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Little Rot
 
Novels
   Freshwater (2018)
   Pet (2019)
   The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
   Bitter (2022)
   You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty (2022)
   Little Rot (2024)
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Collections
   Content Warning: Everything (poems) (2022)
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Non fiction show
 
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Harry Sylvester Bird (2022)
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Vagabonds! (2022)
Eloghosa Osunde
"Some of the most spectacular writing I've ever encountered in my life... VAGABONDS! brought me to tears because it gave me a world in which my country could be home again."

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